A second CISA employee predicts that “compliance efforts like secure-by-design may not have the support that they currently benefit from.” That retreat from corporate oversight will be a top priority of Musk and other tech billionaires who have flocked to Trump. “The tech influence here, assuming Elon Musk stays in Trump’s good graces, is going […]
Tim Marchman: What about you, Makena? Makena Kelly: I feel like I have this folk story in my head, and maybe it’s real, I need to check, but of Jimmy Carter upon entering office, he saw some UFO files and wept, and he never said anything about it again. Tim Marchman: I believe I’ve heard […]
Ahead of the the 2024 US elections, the US intelligence community and law enforcement were on high alert and ready to share information—both among agencies and publicly—as foreign malign influence operations emerged. Tech giants like Microsoft similarly sprang into action, collaborating with government partners and publishing their own information about election-related disinformation campaigns. The speed […]
At sentencing, the judge was also permitted to take under consideration the murder-for-hire allegations, despite them never having been charged at trial. “Until the Supreme Court rules otherwise, relevant but uncharged crimes of this sort can be and are regularly considered by judges,” says Richman. Ulbricht has never fully acknowledged the harm inflicted by the […]
It’s the day after Donald Trump declared his election victory, and a tech scout for NATO is peering down at a miniature factory, the size of a shoebox, designed to manufacture semiconductors in space. Chris O’Connor, with his black bomber jacket and military haircut, has spent the past year scouring Europe for companies that will […]
On the campaign trail, Trump went out of his way to court their favor. In July, speaking to thousands of bitcoiners at a conference in Nashville, Tennessee, Trump duly sang from the bitcoin hymn sheet, promising to cement the US as the foremost bitcoin mining powerhouse, establish a national “bitcoin stockpile,” and appoint a bitcoin […]
Perplexity’s Election Information Hub might also blur the line between verified and free-wheeling AI-generated information. While some results come directly from trusted sources, searching for more information triggered open-ended AI-generated results from the wider web. Other AI companies appear to be taking a more cautious approach to the election. In WIRED’s testing, ChatGPT Search, a […]
A TikTok video of actor Brian Baumgartner, from the American version of The Officecalling for the overthrow of the president of a small European country was an early sign that this would be no ordinary election. Late last year, Baumgartner appeared among a lineup of American celebrities addressing Maia Sandu, the current, pro-European president of […]
The Dutch and the Japanese would go on to unveil their own sweeping controls on semiconductor manufacturing equipment, including ASML’s DUV machines and almost two dozen tools produced in Japan. Both countries have sworn ever since that they were acting in their own—very real—national security interests. (A spokesperson for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs […]
